Husband and wife team Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth are the artistic minds behind Tugboat Printshop. Established in 2006, the two employ the traditional process of printmaking to create high quality and affordable contemporary pieces. Through their work, the talented pair strive to keep the art of printmaking alive, fostering public appreciation and interest in the traditional process. After three years of meticulous drawing, carving, and printing, their original colour woodblock print Outlook has finally been unveiled.
Outlook is a dizzyingly detailed 46″ x 30″ landscape carving depicting rolling hills, sweeping fields, pine-dotted mountain ranges, and lush forests. Through the use of traditional art production processes, Tugboat Printshop can reveal how mass communication once distributed a simple message through complex mechanisms. (source).
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Husband and wife team Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth are the artistic minds behind Tugboat Printshop. Established in 2006, the two employ the traditional process of printmaking to create high quality and affordable contemporary pieces. Through their work, the talented pair strive to keep the art of printmaking alive, fostering public appreciation and interest in the traditional process. After three years of meticulous drawing, carving, and printing, their original colour woodblock print Outlook has finally been unveiled.
Outlook is a dizzyingly detailed 46″ x 30″ landscape carving depicting rolling hills, sweeping fields, pine-dotted mountain ranges, and lush forests. Through the use of traditional art production processes, Tugboat Printshop can reveal how mass communication once distributed a simple message through complex mechanisms. (source).
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Being stuck in traffic is an unpleasant experience, and few cities know this better than Los Angeles. Famous for its infuriating stop-and-go gridlock, an innovative project hopes to ease the pain of being stuck in a car. The Billboard Creative is a nonprofit that takes unused and remnant billboards and turns them into public art.
The Billboard Creative rotates artists and curators by creating month-long shows. Mona Kuhn is the curator behind this current 33-billboard iteration, and she chose the works—which feature photography, painting and sculpture— she selected pieces based on how they would integrate into the locations and types of traffic, be it slow or gridlocked. The public art project is open to everyone, with an open call for submissions. (source).
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Film Screening: Leviathan (2012)
Friday, February 12 / 6-9 PM, Sociology Seminar room (SSMS 3017)
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Performing Climate Futures: A Workshop/Invitation to the Creative Art of Speaking about Just Climate Futures
Tuesday, February 9 / 2-4 PM, McCune Room, HSSB 6020
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Film Screening: Gasland
Friday, January 29th / 6 PM, Sociology Seminar Room, SSMS 3017.
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Are We Saving the Planet or Kidding Ourselves? Perspectives on the Recent Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Roundtable on the Paris COP21 UN Climate Summit. The panel will feature several faculty and students from UCSB’s Climate Justice project who attended COP21. Wednesday, January 13th / 2 PM, McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020.
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The project is named The Barn House to reflect its open-plan layout, which could later be sub-divided to create a child’s bedroom or a photography studio. The spaces between the chunky wooden columns and beams, which create the framework for future rooms, match the standard sizes of timber boards, so they can easily divide the open space.
“We aimed to build a house like a barn which can become their own home in the future,” explained the architect. “The client will continue the renovation in their own way according to the changes in their lifestyle. (source).
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ODA New York’s residential tower for Manhattan features open-air terraces between the floors, designed to fulfill “the dream of a suburban backyard”. Called East 44th Street, the top half of the building will feature 4.8 metres “gaps” between every two to three floors that will be occupied by open-air terraces.
“There is a huge disconnect between how we live in our cities and what we need, as human beings, for quality of life,” said ODA’s founder and executive director Eran Chen. “I don’t think that we should be forced to choose between enduring in the city, or escaping to suburban areas.” (source).
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Desginer John Edmark’s 3D-printed Fibonacci zoetrope sculptures come alive as they spin beneath a strobe. Every time they turn 137.5º–a number known as the golden angle– a synced flash of light creates the apparent motion of an infinitely spiraling structure.
“If change is the only constant in nature, it is written in the language of geometry,” Edmark writes in his artist’s statement. Inspired by the same mathematics found in nature, such as the shapes of pinecones and sunflowers, Edmark created these works. (source).
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On a quiet island in Norway, a cavernous structure protruding out of permafrost holds over 770,000 seeds of plants from all over the globe in case of a sudden “doomsday” scenario or plant-pocalypse. This is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the spark for artist Kaitlyn Schwalje’s macrophotography project, Seeds Under Microscope.
“I work on the premise that a single captivating image can be enough to make an otherwise inaccessible and dense topic exciting. It’s a form of packaging,” explains Schwalje, whose background is in physics and designs. “Behind the image of a seed is a rich and timeless story about agricultural futures and climate change; a story spanning continents and centuries. Any level of investigation uncovers new knowledge.” (source).
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